hispid
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The first glume is chartaceous, laterally compressed, obscurely 4-nerved, glabrous below, hispid near the apex, minutely 2-toothed or not at the apex, not awned or rarely with a short awn.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Surface minutely hispid, smooth and rounded as a whole.
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
Achenes wingless, 8–10; pappus a scarious hispid crown.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Heads rather larger, the outer scales 12–20, mostly exceeding the inner, slender and hispid; achenes with 2 short acute teeth.—W. Ill. to Kan. and Tex.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The surface of the pileus is coarsely hairy or hispid, the surface becoming more rough with age.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
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